Between Tides

Name: Between Tides
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Angel Khoury
ISBN: 9781666150568

Author: Angel Khoury

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/10/2021

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women

Synopsis

A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station to start a new family far to the south, at Cape Hatteras.

1940s: His daughter, en route to serve in World War II with the Red Cross, travels to Cape Cod where she meets his first wife, Blythe, reanimating a life she had long buried: memories of her courtship, her bitter losses, and her husband's slow-motion vanishing.

Set on two wild seascapes, Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, Between Tides is a lyrical novel for fans of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marilynne Robinson—a story of two women stitching together a family ripped at the seams and discovering that even through absence, love's presence is everlasting.

About Angel Khoury

Angel Khoury has lived on the North Carolina's Outer Banks for more than forty years. She became associate editor of the Coastland Times, editor and publisher of Outer Banks Magazine, author of Manteo: A Roanoke Island Town, and a board member of the non-profit Outer Banks Conservationists, owners of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and Island Farm. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, she graduated from the University of Virginia, and also attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College. These experiences all led, inevitably, to her first novel, Between Tides. She lives on Roanoke Island, surrounded by history, among friends both living and dead.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alyson

I made it to page 99 and quit. The writing is beautiful but the plot and characters were not clearly explained enough for me to understand and follow what was happening. The book seemed more like a collage of images and impressions, kind of like a long poem. My book club chose this and only one memb......more

Goodreads review by Michele

Angel Khoury's debut doesn't disappoint. I had the privilege of reading an advanced copy, and she is the real deal. A fresh, experimental point of view, 1st person omniscient. This book is a love story and a story about family and loss and moving forward. It's hard to put into words what a pleasure......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I received an advance copy of Khoury’s debut and thoroughly enjoyed the read. The narrator is elderly Blythe Lodge who is living on Cape Cod in the same small town where she has always lived. She has bittersweet memories of her life with former husband, Gilead (or Gil), who was the younger brother o......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

_____________________ Reality, I think, is imagination poorly disguised. How people know one another is imperfect and refracted. The white spaces between the lines, what is it they left unsaid? _______________________ This is a historical novel, based on an actual man and actual events, with a little bit......more

Goodreads review by Amelia

4.5 ⭐️s ~ While vacationing in Mateo I stumbled upon Angel doing a book signing and just had to purchase her book. Having just visited the area and learned about its history and it’s tales really made me love this story more. The little tidbits the author threw in about local folklore was fun to rea......more